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Armenian Communities of the Northeastern Mediterranean is the fourteenth volume to be published in the UCLA series, Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces. Even though the northeastern reaches of the Mediterranean Sea were not a part of historic Greater...

Part fiction, part memoirs, this collection of stories by an insider sheds new light on the main actors of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The title story in The Arrest of Hoveyda, Stories of the Iranian Revolution is a narrative in the distinct voices of...

The book offers much rich new material in the field of Iranian iconography, including bold metaphysical speculations on the theme of light metal work and pottery, in-depth studies of the meanings associated with various animals in both the pagan Turkish and...

“The tearoom scene which met my eye looked like a page out of a book whose figures came to life as we approached, for the women were wearing the old-fashioned clothes of Arabia, pantaloons and long overdresses with high collars fastened by gold studs on a...

Affectionately known as Moh among colleagues
and friends, Mohammad Reza Ghanoonpoarvar
has been a prominent figure in the field of
Persian language and literature for the past
thirty years. He is credited with pioneering
work in the interpretation and...

Contemporary Iranian Photography edited by Abbas Daneshvari offers five essays with interpretive comments on the photography of post-1980s Iran, including the emerging style and concepts of the field. The authors note that this art has shown unprecedented...

Erotic Persian is a general survey of language and images that arouse sexual desire. The book begins by examining the works of the great Persian poets and prose authors who avoid direct mention of bodily functions and used imagery borrowed from nature and...

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GharbzadegiTranslated from the Persian by John Green and Ahmad Alizadeh. Illustrated by Ardeshir Mohasses.by Jalal Al-e Ahmad

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Gharbzadegi [Weststruckness] is a tour de force on social conditions in Iran. It was written in 1962 when the Pahlavi regime seemed to have control over Iran's destiny. For the author, Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969), the result was total national submission to...

Among the .proud remains and wonderful memorials of the ancient land of Iran/Persia are the palaces which the Achaemenian Kings built at Pasargadae and Persepolis of massive polished stones in an incomparable manner. Each one of these splendid buildings, the...